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Background:
"When you perform a hypothesis test in statistics, a p-value helps you determine the significance of your results. Hypothesis tests are used to test the validity of a claim that is made about a population. This claim that’s on trial, in essence, is called the null hypothesis....(continue here...)
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From John Garnagi's EvalBlog post of 30 January 2015 See also the 40+ comments posted there as well
As someone said, "Making predictions can be difficult, especially about the future"
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(copy of a blog posting by David Evans on 2015/03/02 on the World Bank Development Impact blog)
Rick Davies Comment: I have highlighted interesting bits of text in red. The conclusions, also in red, are worth noting. And...make sure you check out the great (as often) xkcd comic at the end of ...

Fascinating article By ATUL GAWANDE in the New Yorker Magazine, Annals of Medicine DECEMBER 10, 2007 ISSUE
Selected quotes:
There are degrees of complexity, though, and intensive-care medicine has grown so far beyond ordinary complexity that avoiding daily mistakes is proving impossible even for our super-specialists. The I.C.U., with its spectacular successes and frequent ...

by The SEEP Network on Dec 16, 2014 A video presentation A pdf is also available
"In this third webinar of the series, Daniel Ticehurst, of DAI, spoke about a tool/process now called Anecdote Circles. Such circles are similar to focus group interviews/discussions and beneficiary assessments of the 1980's: they create ...

By Patrick, Meier, Francis & Taylor Press, January 15, 2015 See: http://digital-humanitarians.com/
"The overflow of information generated during disasters can be as paralyzing to humanitarian response as the lack of information. This flash flood of information is often referred to as Big Data, or Big Crisis Data. Making sense of Big Crisis Data is ...

by Julian Barr and Angela Christie, 2014. ITAD. 6 pages Available as pdf
"Value for money suffers from being a phrase that is more used than understood. We all instinctively believe we understand the terms since we all regularly seek value for money in the things we buy. Yet, once Value for Money attains capital letters ...

(copied from here: http://decipher.uk.net/process-evaluation-guidance/)
"Updated MRC guidance for evaluation of complex interventions published in 2008 (Craig et al.2008) highlighted the value of process evaluation within trials of complex interventions in order to understand implementation, the mechanisms through which interventions produce change, and the role of context in shaping implementation and effectiveness. However, it provided limited insight into how ...